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Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, pressed Ariz. lawmakers to help reverse Trump's loss, emails show — Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed Arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside Joe Biden's …
Fox News:
Hillary Clinton approved dissemination of Trump-Russian bank allegations to media, campaign manager testifies — Clinton's former campaign manager said he took the idea of leaking Trump-Russia allegations to multiple senior campaign officials — Special counsel John Durham releases evidence …
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Hillary Clinton personally approved plan to share Trump-Russia allegation with the press in 2016, campaign manager says — (CNN)Hillary Clinton personally approved her campaign's plans in fall 2016 to share information with a reporter about an uncorroborated alleged server backchannel between Donald Trump …
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Fox News, New York Post, Breitbart and Washington Times
BBC:
Michael Sussmann: Clinton lawyer ‘lied to manipulate FBI over Trump’ — A lawyer for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign lied to the FBI to “manipulate” the agency in order to win the election, a court has heard. — Arguments in the trial of Michael Sussmann have begun …
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CNN, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, NewsNation, Washington Times and New York Post
Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. archbishop says Pelosi will be denied communion over abortion — WASHINGTON — The San Francisco archbishop issued a notice Friday that he would no longer allow House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion, an escalation of his feud with the Catholic Democrat over abortion politics.
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Luke Coppen / Catholic News Agency:
BREAKING: Archbishop Cordileone bars Nancy Pelosi from Communion until she ends abortion support — Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced on Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should not be admitted to Holy Communion in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, nor should she present herself …
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americamagazine.org, National Review and The Daily Caller
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
San Francisco archbishop bars Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion due to abortion support — Pelosi has said she is a ‘devout’ Catholic despite her abortion advocacy — Fox News Flash top headlines for May 20 — San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced Friday …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, HotAir, Catholic News Agency, The Pillar, CBS News, Townhall, Forbes, Ace of Spades HQ, KRON4, The Daily Signal, TheBlaze, The Daily Wire, Human Events and Twitchy
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Eastman provides new details of Trump's direct role in legal effort to overturn election — John Eastman, the attorney who architected Donald Trump's last-ditch legal strategy to overturn the 2020 election, revealed Friday that he routinely communicated with Trump either directly or via …
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CNN:
Ohio GOP House candidate J.R. Majewski called for secession in livestream following 2020 election — J.R. Majewski shared pro-QAnon material online. Now, he's running for Congress — (CNN)Ohio Republican congressional candidate J.R. Majewski said in a livestream following the 2020 election …
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
The 2024 Presidential Election Is on the Ballot This Year
The 2024 Presidential Election Is on the Ballot This Year
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The Guardian, The Smirking Chimp and The Moderate Voice
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Right-wing attorney who challenged election results says Trump wrote him handwritten notes
Right-wing attorney who challenged election results says Trump wrote him handwritten notes
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Washington Post and Raw Story
New York Times:
Russia moves toward dropping age limits for military service. — Finland's state energy provider said Russia had cited the company's failure to pay in rubles, but Moscow is also angry over Finnish moves to join NATO. Gerhard Schröder, the former German chancellor …
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New York Times:
New Evidence Shows How Russian Soldiers Executed Men in Bucha
New Evidence Shows How Russian Soldiers Executed Men in Bucha
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Mediaite, Wall Street Journal, Graham's Newsletter, Reuters, Fred Klonsky in Retirement, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and РИА …
Mark Trevelyan / Reuters:
Struggling in Ukraine, Russia paves way to sign up over-40s for army
Struggling in Ukraine, Russia paves way to sign up over-40s for army
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New York Times, CNN, Daily Kos, Raw Story, The Guardian, The Hill, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Washington Examiner and NBC News
Kate Sosin / The 19th:
A lesbian mom raised her son for two years. An Oklahoma judge erased that in 15 minutes. — For more stories like this, subscribe to our daily newsletter. — For the first two years of her son's life, Kris Williams read him the book “Love You Forever” before bedtime most nights.
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Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Biden's approval dips to lowest of presidency: AP-NORC poll — President Joe Biden's approval rating dipped to the lowest point of his presidency in May, a new poll shows, with deepening pessimism emerging among members of his own Democratic Party. — Only 39% of U.S. adults approve …
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Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Biden approval rating plummets to 39%, down 24 points from last year: AP poll
Biden approval rating plummets to 39%, down 24 points from last year: AP poll
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RedState, The Floridian and IJR
Washington Post:
Oracle's Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump's loss — The billionaire GOP donor participated along with Fox's Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant — Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and chairman …
Maya King / New York Times:
In Georgia, a G.O.P. Primary Tests the Power of a Trump Vendetta — Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is fending off a challenger fueled by Donald J. Trump's election lies. But do voters still care about 2020 as much as the former president does? — ATLANTA — An anti-Trump Republican …
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Politico and Washington Post
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Josh Margolin / ABC News:
2 Secret Service employees being sent home from South Korea ahead of Biden's arrival after alleged incident: Sources — Agency spokesman told ABC News they'll be “placed on administrative leave.” — Two Secret Service employees — an agent and an armed physical security specialist …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
The Sinister Symmetry Of CRT And GRT — The extremes of right and left on immigration are fueling each other. — The MSM rushed last weekend to explain the previously obscure conspiracy theory that motivated a mass-murderer on a shooting spree in a black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York.
CNN:
Clarence Thomas calls out John Roberts as Supreme Court edges closer to overturning Roe v. Wade — (CNN)There was a little seen warm moment between Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas last November 1, just before the Supreme Court heard arguments on Texas' abortion ban.
Washington Post:
Clyburn: ‘We still refuse to admit that we have a race problem in this country’ — Good morning to everyone, especially Rihanna and her baby boy. Tips? Comments? Baby pics? We're all eyes: earlytips@washpost.com. Have a lovely weekend. 🫶
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CBS News:
2 killed, 8 wounded in mass shooting outside a Chicago McDonald's — A suspect is in custody after two people were killed and eight others wounded in a mass shooting in downtown Chicago late Thursday night. — Police said it happened just after 10:40 p.m. outside a McDonald's a few blocks …
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Sam Adler-Bell / New York Magazine:
The Liberal Obsession With ‘Disinformation’ Is Not Helping — On Wednesday, the Washington Post's Taylor Lorenz reported on the disastrous rollout of the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board. Announced on April 27 with a hazy remit to “coordinate countering …
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The Atlantic, IJR, The Daily Caller and The Daily Signal
Flora Garamvolgyi / The Guardian:
Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to ‘have your own media’ — Hungarian leader also tells Republicans at Budapest conference that shows like Tucker Carlson's should be broadcast ‘24/7’ — The Hungarian leader, Viktor Orbán, has told a conference of US conservatives …
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Salon, Letters from an American and Breitbart, more at Mediagazer »
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Eric Garcetti's parents register to lobby for their son's ambassador bid — The parents of Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti have enlisted the help of prominent lobbyists to aid their son's beleaguered nomination to serve as U.S. ambassador to India. — McGuireWoods Consulting registered …
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The Daily Caller
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Doug Mastriano warned of left-wing ‘Hitlerian Putsch’ in 2001 paper — The Pennsylvania GOP governor nominee's thesis argued morally debauched political leaders weren't fit to oversee the U.S. military — Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor …
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The Hill, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Prepares for ‘War’ With AIPAC and Its Super PAC — The pro-Israel group, which is involved with direct political spending this year for the first time, has opposed progressive candidates backed by Mr. Sanders. — Senator Bernie Sanders, the progressive former presidential candidate …
Casper Star-Tribune:
Wyo GOP chairman quietly assumed power as party fractured — Victoria Eavis and Rone Tempest Casper Star-Tribune and WyoFile — W. Frank Eathorne says two of the most important moments in his life occurred when he was 7 years old, living on the family ranch in the Thunder Basin grasslands of eastern Wyoming.
Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
57 U.S. Lawmakers Demand FBI, State Dept. Inquiry Into Shireen Abu Akleh Killing — A quarter of all House Democrats signed a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Blinken and the FBI's director demanding an independent investigation into the killing of the Palestinian journalist in the West Bank city of Jenin
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Al Jazeera and The Intercept
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Kellyanne Conway: Media coverage of daughter was ‘unconscionable and unforgivable’ — Kellyanne Conway, a former top aide to ex-President Trump, says she is still bothered by the way news outlets covered the social media postings of her teenage daughter around the time she left the White House.
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IJR and People.com
Michael Bamberger / GolfDigest.com:
Donald Trump speaks out on Phil, Jack, Saudi Arabia and the PGA that got away — After a reporter's story on Trump's lost 2022 PGA, the former president called unannounced to weigh in with his own thoughts. — After a reporter's story on Trump's lost 2022 PGA, the former president called unannounced …
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Insider and New Jersey Online
Graham Moomaw / Virginia Mercury:
Va. Republicans try to restrict minors' access to two books after judge's obscenity finding — 'They're basically treated like adult magazines now' — A Republican lawyer who serves in the Virginia House of Delegates is pursing restraining orders that would make two books unavailable …
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